[debian-mysql] Bug#792176: mysql-server-5.5: uninstallable in sid

[Bob Proulx]

Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Since the upload of mysql-5.6 mysql-5.5 is no longer installable in sid.

I am not the maintainer but just another interested user.  In that
spirit I note that mysql-5.1 is no longer installable in Sid either.
Is that a bug?  Isn't that simply the nature of Sid that things move
forward there leaving older versions behind?

The new mysql-server-5.5 5.5.43-0+deb8u1 Pre-Depends mysql-common (>=
5.5.43-0+deb8u1) and mysql-common in sid has been replaced.
Installing 5.5 will require a DOWNGRADE of mysql-common and therefore
must be specified explicitly.  One can install 5.5 by explicitly
installing the previous version this way:

  apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 mysql-common=5.5.43-0+deb8u1

However that depends upon the availability of mysql-common version
5.5.43-0+deb8u1 which will need to be pulled from either Testing
(while available there) or snapshot.debian.org.  On my Sid machine
today I see this:

  # apt-cache policy mysql-common
  mysql-common:
    Installed: 5.6.25-2
    Candidate: 5.6.25-2
    Version table:
   *** 5.6.25-2 0
          500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       5.5.43-0+deb8u1 0
          500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages

To help with transitions in Sid it is a best practice to include
Testing in the sources.list file for these and other cases.  However
anything older will need snapshot.debian.org for retrieval.

Bob
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